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Topic: Has The Common Man Vanished From Short-Track Racing?
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February 04, 2007 at
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Posted By: racinrebel on February 04 2007 at 02:10:21 PM
Stan it's too bad our "local 360 series" doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, I know the late models can put on an OK show, but I really miss the wings up here.............
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I don't know where you live but I'm in Forest lake so there's still plenty of Sprint Car racing within a couple hours of home. There's IRA at Cedar Lake, Superior, North Central, Rice Lake and Deer Creek. We've got some ASCS and an open 360 show at Owatonna. There's an ASCS National Tour race at North Central, the ASCS Billy Anderson Memorial and two open 360 shows at Cedar Lake plus the Richert Memorial in September. One of the CLS open 360 shows is going to be the night before the Masters so that's one night of 360's and two nights of IRA. Oh yeah, I almost forgot the Princeton National the first week of October.
There's so much Sprint Car racing around here that I only have room for some of the big Late Model specials anymore and not much weekly fendered racing. The USA Nationals, Tri-Star Challenge series at Owatonna and a couple of WDRL shows are about all the Late Model shows I can sqeeze in.
Stan Meissner
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February 04, 2007 at
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Posted By: racinrebel on February 04 2007 at 01:58:50 PM
The 305's may be the coming thing, but what happens when they follow the trend of the 360's..... when the 305's get to $30,000 are they gonna start running V6's? When does it end? Even around here, some of the mini stocks have 10 grand in their motors...
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It has been in a cycle like this forever. You get a good class started and then they push the rules and before long you have a class no one can afford anymore. Here in OKC it all started back in the 80's with champdirt cars, then sprintcars now you got guys spending $20,000 on a 360 flat top piston motor that uses a 2-barrell carb racing for $400 to win a night. Now you got 305 classes that are affordable(compared to everything else) but it won't take a couple of years and they will be overpriced also.
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